A 50-year-old woman, who traded bitcoin as "Bitcoin Maven," faces 2.5 years in jail for having run an illegal money transmitting business.
Coinbase has lost another appeal in a case brought by former customers of the defunct exchange Cryptsy, and the case will now proceed to a jury trial.
Defendants from My Big Coin Pay, which is being sued by the CFTC for fraud, argue that the agency lacks jurisdiction over the case.
A cryptocurrency brokerage based in Israel won't have its bank account closed – for now – thanks to an intervention by the Supreme Court.
Early motions may force the court to rule on whether or not this coin should be considered a security under U.S. law.
A former U.S. Secret Service agent has been given an additional prison term for laundering Silk Road bitcoin stolen from a U.S government wallet.
Coin.mx operator Yuri Lebedev has been sentenced to 16 months in prison, according to a new report.
Convicted cryptocurrency executive Josh Garza may see his sentencing for wire fraud postponed until next year, court records show.
A Pennsylvania resident is claiming to have stolen millions in bitcoin, though he's offered police little in the way of evidence.
The former CEO of defunct cryptocurrency mining company GAW Miners is likely to plead guilty to a federal wire fraud charge later this week.
A federal judge in New York has ruled that bitcoin constitutes a form of money.